Paraguay advances in vaping regulation and raises alarms in Brazil

Paraguay is adjacent to enacting regulations connected physics cigarettes, oregon vapes. The Congress approved a instrumentality connected the taxable successful June, which awaits the president's approval.

The taxable raises alarms successful Brazil: “As it happens with Paraguayan cigarettes, legally produced determination and illegally sold here, the inflow of vapes should increase, feeding smuggling.”, says Roberta Duarte, main of the Crimes against Immaterial Properties Police Station of Rio de Janeiro.

Sales of the instrumentality are forbidden successful Brazil since 2009, but the merchandise presently has 5,3 cardinal users successful the country, according to USP and Ipsos institute research.

In caller years, seizures person grown from R$61.8 cardinal successful 2023 to R$179.4 cardinal successful 2024—an summation of 190%, according to the Counterfeiting Yearbook.

“Until Brazil moves guardant with regulations for physics smoking devices, the state volition stay vulnerable,” says Edimilson Alves, president of the Brazilian Tobacco Industry Association.